Preamble
Evangelical Christians at the dawn of the twenty-first century find themselves living in a period
of historic transition. As Western culture has become increasingly post-Christian, it has
embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being. By and large the spirit
of our age no longer discerns or delights in the beauty of God’s design for human life. Many
deny that God created human beings for his glory, and that his good purposes for us include our
personal and physical design as male and female. It is common to think that human identity as
male and female is not part of God’s beautiful plan, but is, rather, an expression of an
individual’s autonomous preferences. The pathway to full and lasting joy through God’s good
design for his creatures is thus replaced by the path of shortsighted alternatives that, sooner or
later, ruin human life and dishonor God.

This secular spirit of our age presents a great challenge to the Christian church. Will the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ lose her biblical conviction, clarity, and courage, and blend into the
spirit of the age? Or will she hold fast to the word of life, draw courage from Jesus, and
unashamedly proclaim his way as the way of life? Will she maintain her clear, counter-cultural
witness to a world that seems bent on ruin?

We are persuaded that faithfulness in our generation means declaring once again the true story of
the world and of our place in it—particularly as male and female. Christian Scripture teaches that
there is but one God who alone is Creator and Lord of all. To him alone, every person owes gladhearted
thanksgiving, heart-felt praise, and total allegiance. This is the path not only of glorifying
God, but of knowing ourselves. To forget our Creator is to forget who we are, for he made us for
himself. And we cannot know ourselves truly without truly knowing him who made us. We did
not make ourselves. We are not our own. Our true identity, as male and female persons, is given
by God. It is not only foolish, but hopeless, to try to make ourselves what God did not create us
to be.

We believe that God’s design for his creation and his way of salvation serve to bring him the
greatest glory and bring us the greatest good. God’s good plan provides us with the greatest
freedom. Jesus said he came that we might have life and have it in overflowing measure. He is
for us and not against us. Therefore, in the hope of serving Christ’s church and witnessing
publicly to the good purposes of God for human sexuality revealed in Christian Scripture, we
offer the following affirmations and denials.

Article 1

WE AFFIRM that God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong
union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant
love between Christ and his bride the church.
WE DENY that God has designed marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous
relationship. We also deny that marriage is a mere human contract rather than a covenant made
before God.

Article 2

WE AFFIRM that God’s revealed will for all people is chastity outside of marriage and fidelity
within marriage.
WE DENY that any affections, desires, or commitments ever justify sexual intercourse before or
outside marriage; nor do they justify any form of sexual immorality.

Article 3

WE AFFIRM that God created Adam and Eve, the first human beings, in his own image, equal
before God as persons, and distinct as male and female.
WE DENY that the divinely ordained differences between male and female render them unequal
in dignity or worth.

Article 4

WE AFFIRM that divinely ordained differences between male and female reflect God’s original
creation design and are meant for human good and human flourishing.
WE DENY that such differences are a result of the Fall or are a tragedy to be overcome.

Article 5

WE AFFIRM that the differences between male and female reproductive structures are integral
to God’s design for self-conception as male or female.
WE DENY that physical anomalies or psychological conditions nullify the God-appointed link
between biological sex and self-conception as male or female.

Article 6

WE AFFIRM that those born with a physical disorder of sex development are created in the
image of God and have dignity and worth equal to all other image-bearers. They are
acknowledged by our Lord Jesus in his words about “eunuchs who were born that way from their
mother's womb.” With all others they are welcome as faithful followers of Jesus Christ and
should embrace their biological sex insofar as it may be known.
WE DENY that ambiguities related to a person’s biological sex render one incapable of living a
fruitful life in joyful obedience to Christ.

Article 7

WE AFFIRM that self-conception as male or female should be defined by God’s holy purposes
in creation and redemption as revealed in Scripture.
WE DENY that adopting a homosexual or transgender self-conception is consistent with God’s
holy purposes in creation and redemption.

Article 8

WE AFFIRM that people who experience sexual attraction for the same sex may live a rich and
fruitful life pleasing to God through faith in Jesus Christ, as they, like all Christians, walk in
purity of life.
WE DENY that sexual attraction for the same sex is part of the natural goodness of God’s
original creation, or that it puts a person outside the hope of the gospel.

Article 9

WE AFFIRM that sin distorts sexual desires by directing them away from the marriage covenant
and toward sexual immorality— a distortion that includes both heterosexual and homosexual
immorality.
WE DENY that an enduring pattern of desire for sexual immorality justifies sexually immoral
behavior.

Article 10

WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that
such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.
WE DENY that the approval of homosexual immorality or transgenderism is a matter of moral
indifference about which otherwise faithful Christians should agree to disagree.

Article 11
WE AFFIRM our duty to speak the truth in love at all times, including when we speak to or
about one another as male or female.
WE DENY any obligation to speak in such ways that dishonor God’s design of his imagebearers
as male and female.

Article 12

WE AFFIRM that the grace of God in Christ gives both merciful pardon and transforming
power, and that this pardon and power enable a follower of Jesus to put to death sinful desires
and to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord.
WE DENY that the grace of God in Christ is insufficient to forgive all sexual sins and to give
power for holiness to every believer who feels drawn into sexual sin.

Article 13

WE AFFIRM that the grace of God in Christ enables sinners to forsake transgender selfconceptions
and by divine forbearance to accept the God-ordained link between one’s biological
sex and one’s self-conception as male or female.
WE DENY that the grace of God in Christ sanctions self-conceptions that are at odds with God’s
revealed will.

Article 14

WE AFFIRM that Christ Jesus has come into the world to save sinners and that through Christ’s
death and resurrection forgiveness of sins and eternal life are available to every person who
repents of sin and trusts in Christ alone as Savior, Lord, and supreme treasure.
WE DENY that the Lord’s arm is too short to save or that any sinner is beyond his reach.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450910/pope-francis-papacy-diminishedSometimes I think Pope Francis is a gift to the Catholic Church, especially when he says something silly, clumsy, or even stupid. He allows serious Catholics to take the papal cult less seriously than they have been doing for generations. Overall, that’s a good thing. It began almost gently, as a matter of style, with the way Pope Francis offered pungent insults in his homilies and interviews. He called out archetypes. He slammed what he called “airport bishops.” He characterized Christians who complain too much as “Mr. and Mrs. Whiner.” He belittled certain types of nuns as “old maids.” Suddenly, the almost Olympian dignity of the papacy was replaced by something else.The cult that has surrounded the papacy in recent decades is not entirely Catholic. Much of it is driven by celebrity culture, and the demands of an unending news cycle. The pope functions in the mainstream media as a kind of living symbol of all Western religion. In the Catholic media, he’s the man who can move magazine covers, or get you to click. He’s the most famous Catholic, and he’s covered as if he were providing “the religious view” of current events. One way or another, people look to him as a living oracle. Many believe, falsely, that a pope has the authority to change unpopular moral and theological teachings of the Church, as if he were the leader of a giant political party and decided that a few planks in the party platform needed to be changed to ensure his party’s relevance.

Vejam o relato do Mail Online abaixo:Muslim foster carers 'told Christian girl, five, that Christmas and Easter are stupid and European women are alcoholics after taking away her crucifix and stopping her from eating bacon'

A white five-year-old girl told her mother Christmas and Easter are
'stupid' and European women are alcoholics after being fostered to two Muslim
families, it was claimed today.

The child, who is a native English speaker, also refused to take back
her favourite meal - spaghetti carbonara - because it contained bacon - which
Muslims do not eat.

The child, who is a native English speaker, spent the past six months in
two Muslim households after being placed into foster care in Tower Hamlets,
east London.

She was forced to live in Muslim foster homes where nobody spoke English
and her carers took away her Christian cross and encouraged her to learn
Arabic, according to The Times.

Local authority reports describe how the little girl sobbed and begged
not to be returned to her niqab-wearing carer’s home, telling a social worker:
‘They don’t speak English.’

The reports detail how the child was ‘very distressed’ and claimed the
foster carer had removed her Christian cross and encouraged her to learn
Arabic.

The two placements were made by the scandal-hit Tower Hamlets borough
council against the wishes of the girl’s family.

Local authorities are required to give due consideration to a child’s
religion, racial origin and cultural and linguistic background’ when placing
them into a foster home.

The girl’s mother is said to be horrified by the circumstances her
daughter has been placed in.

A friend told the newspaper: ‘This is a five-year-old white girl. She
was born in this country, speaks English as her first language, loves football,
holds a British passport and was christened in a church.

‘She’s already suffered the huge trauma of being forcibly separated from
her family. She needs surroundings in which she’ll feel secure. Instead, she’s
trapped in a world where everything feels foreign and unfamiliar. That’s really
scary for a young child.’

The girl lived with her first carer, who is believed to have worn a
niqab outside the family home, for four months. Her current carer wears a burka,
which covers her face entirely, when she is out in public with the child.

In April this year, an Ofsted inspection at Tower Hamlets council found
‘widespread and serious failures in the services provided to children who need
help and protection’.

The council’s children’s service was rated as inadequate and found to
have an ‘entrenched culture of non-compliance with basic social work
standards’.

The Department for Education said: ‘When placing a child in a foster
home, the local authority must ensure that the placement is the most
appropriate way to support [the child’s] welfare. A child’s background is an
important consideration in this decision.’

A council spokesman said: ‘We are unable to comment on individual cases.
In every case, we give absolute consideration to our children’s background and
to their cultural identity. All our foster carers receive training to ensure
they are fully qualified to meet the needs of children in their care.’

It’s not the first time Tower Hamlets has been embroiled in scandal. In
2014, a leaked government report suggested the mayor Lutfur Rahman had links to
Islamic extremist groups, including one seeking to set up a Sharia state in
Europe.

In 2011, it was reported a 31-year-old Asian woman who worked in a local
chemist’s had received death threats for refusing to wear a veil, even though
she was not a practising Muslim.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis on Monday urged countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop collective expulsions, saying migrants' dignity and right to protection trumps national security concerns.

Francis' politically pointed message was made in view of the Catholic Church's 2018 world refugee day, celebrated Jan. 14. It comes amid mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and beyond following waves of migrant arrivals and Islamic extremist attacks.

In the message, Francis demanded governments welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants, saying Jesus' message of love is rooted in welcoming the "rejected strangers of every age."

He demanded a simplified process of granting humanitarian and temporary visas and rejected arbitrary and collective expulsions as "unsuitable." He said the principle of ensuring each person's dignity "obliges us to always prioritize personal safety over national security."

Francis has made refugees a priority of his pontificate, making his first trip outside Rome in 2013 to the island of Lampedusa, ground zero in Europe's migration crisis. He has repeatedly spoken out for migrants' rights, demanded countries build "bridges not walls," and personally brought a dozen Syrian refugees back to Rome with him when he visited a Greek refugee camp in 2016.

Ignoring critics who say his calls are unrealistic and naive, Francis insisted in the new message that border guards must be trained to protect migrants and that each new arrival, regardless of legal status, must be guaranteed access to basic services beyond health care.

That extends to guaranteeing access to consulates, the justice system and the ability to open a bank account and survive financially, he said.

Unaccompanied minors, he said, require even greater protection, including guaranteeing them citizenship and access to schooling, as well as foster programs rather than detention centers.

He called for policies that support family reunification, employment opportunities and accelerated citizenship procedures to improve migrants' abilities to integrate.

His call was immediately rejected by the leader of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party, which has opposed government proposals to change Italy's law to accelerate citizenship for children born in Italy to non-Italians.

"If you want to do it in the Vatican, go ahead," Matteo Salvini wrote on Facebook. "But as a Catholic, I don't think Italy can welcome and support the whole world."

TRUMP ROLLS BACK TRANS RIGHTS IN OBAMACARE

WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Trump administration is countering Obamacare regulations that had forced doctors to perform sex change services and forced insurers to cover those costs along with those associated with abortions.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is saying new regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon nullify a 2016 rule from the Obama administration that mandated doctors must provide sex change surgery and hormone therapy to those suffering from gender dysphoria. The previous ruling buried in Obamacare had further mandated insurers cover the costs of not only sex change services but also those of abortions as well.

Obama's so-called transgender health mandate was put on hold by a Texas judge last December after it was challenged by five states, including Texas, as well as the Franciscan Alliance, a group of Catholic hospitals. United States District Judge Reed O'Connor found the interpretation illegal, as it wrongly understood sex discrimination to include "discrimination on the basis of gender identity," which he said was rightly understood to mean "discrimination on the basis of the biological differences between males and females." The judge ruled that the former rule was also illegal "because it does not incorporate certain statutory exemptions concerning religion and abortion."

The White House declined in May to appeal the ruling by Judge Reed. This case is highly reminiscent of the Trump administration's decision in February not to appeal an injunction also issued by Judge Reed that stopped Obama's transgender bathroom mandate.

The action by the DOJ and HHS comes on the heels of Trump's announcement that he's banningtransgender individuals from serving in the military.

The DOJ said August 4 that it's in the process of reviewing an HHS regulation expected to grant conscience exemptions for doctors who would refuse to perform sex change procedures on so-called transgenders. The new regulation would also allow insurance companies to opt out of footing the bill for these practices they hold to be immoral. Left-leaning advocacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal, a pro-LGBT group, are up in arms.

CROATIAN FRANCISCAN SHOCKS THE PUBLIC: ISLAM IS WORSE THAN NAZISM

The Vicar of St Nicholas Parish in Croatian city of Kostajnica, Franciscan monk Danijel Maljur, caused great sensation because in a short Youtube film named “Islam” he explained why this religion of Islam is the greatest evil that mankind has ever suffered!

Maljur talks about Nazism, the Holocaust, Hitler, the atomic bomb in Japan, abortion. But, according to his interpretation, all this is nothing compared to Islam.

“Islam, who is entering our doorsteps through the back door, is without any doubt surpassing all the tragedies of mankind,” says Fr. Maljur, explaining further that the holy book of Islam, the Qur’an, as not an authentic work, and certainly not God’s revelation or the Word of God.

He also published his explanation on his public profile on Facebook [h[https://www.facebook.com/danijel.maljur]�He put in a link leading to the article which he calls ‘Islam in Statistics’ in which the author claims that Islam is a violent religion that destroys the world. This publication, Brother Maljur, accompanied with the text: “One of our bishops said yesterday that we all believe in the same God. Nope, not gonna happen … ‘.

On the same profile on September 18th, he stated that he was in Tovarnik in 2015 among the Muslim refugees. He claims that there are almost no old men, women and children among them, but there are so many prevailing young men in their prime of life averaging about 35 years of age.

“If you expect to see freedom-loving rebels [f[from Syria]you will have to pluck some journalistic footage because there is no such thing in reality. These are the faces of the kings or future rulers over us who have stormed into the European lands of their future slaves where they can lie in wait after having to suffer some temporary settlement hassles. Perhaps among them, there are also real refugees seeking only security in the first free country they can find, but I have not seen such a thing,” he continues.

The video that Danijel Maljur put on youtube is now marked as private and can not be opened, but on the Facebook page of the Defense of Faith and the web portal www.obranavjere.com you can read about the religious convictions of this young Franciscan friar.

“Islam without any doubt surpasses all the above-mentioned tragedies of humanity,” says Brother Daniel after he listed all the major tragedies that history had experienced in mankind – from Genghis Khan’s conquests to Nazism. Furthermore, Fr. Daniel believes that Judaism and Christianity derive from the common roots of Abraham, while “the only thing that pulls Islam is dried weeds,” adding that Judaism and Christianity have nothing in common with either Allah or the Quran. According to him, Islam defies the true God, spites all the people, and opposes common sense. For Fr. Daniel, the Quran is an unbelievable book because it was created a long time after Muhammad’s death.

“Not only is the Quran the word of God not revealed, but its devilish inspiration is clear,” Brother Daniel denotes his arguments on the Qur’an. For him, Muhammad is the embodiment of everything bad. “It is alarming that Muhammad is still a model for all Muslims today,”

Furthermore, he believes that Islam is not a peaceful religion. “All those Muslims who are called radical are nothing but normal Muslims, such as they are according to Islamic standards and should be”. “According to some estimates, in the Islamic conquests since its founding 270 million people have been killed,” he expounds.

“There can be no dialogue with Islam,” Daniel says, adding that this is because the nature of Islam is against dialogue.

“We must know that human rights violations are at the core of this ideology,” says the Franciscan.

Thus, in an article entitled “Islam in Statistics,” he says “there are some statistics that show Islam as a violent religion that destroys the whole world.”

On the pages of the Croatian Franciscan Parish of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Fr. Danijel Maljur is described as a Franciscan with an unusual sense of humor, determined in the defense of the faith and ready for the challenges of modern society. Through his YouTube channel, he has been speaking to the general public for some time, and the reason, as he said in an interview on the above-mentioned page, is the fact that the Church has never been attacked in the past as it is being attacked today.

The Turkish Empire At The Height of Its Power and Spread

A painting depicting the Turkish raid on a Croatian country parson’s home

Man undergoing third sex change: ‘I hope I will finally be happy’

by Claire Chretien

GREAT BRITAIN, August 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Brad "Ria" Cooper, who was the UK's youngest "sex change" patient at 15, announced he is undergoing his third "sex change" operation, this time to make himself more like a woman again.

Shortly after his 18th birthday, Cooper "transitioned" back to his biological gender and lived as a "gay man."

"But five years in Ria is more certain than ever that is not the real her – and is making her second attempt at becoming a woman to have the future she always dreamed of," The Mirror reported.

De-transitioning back to a man "made me even more unhappy," Cooper said. "Now I’m going to be me – and I hope I will finally be happy."

Cooper told the UK show This Morning that his life went downhill after a documentary about his "transition" was released when he was 18.

"I was really depressed and I was struggling to find work – no one would give me a job," he said. "My documentary was out when I was 18 and that like, kind of ruined my life from there."

"I never wanted to change back to a man. I was 18, I was going through a really bad patch," he said. "I was in a really bad relationship."

This Morning anchors Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford gushed about Cooper's "journey" and asked how society can be more "enlightened."

"I just knew I wanted to be a girl" as a young child, said Cooper.

Langsford suggested that for young Cooper it wasn't so much wanting to be a girl as it was "feeling you’re in the wrong body."

If you
see a splinter in your brother’s eye,” Jesus never said, “ignore it, because
you probably have a splinter in your eye, too, or something worse.” A splinter
in the eye hurts. He warns us against spiritual pride, against believing
ourselves better than our brother because we happen not to be afflicted with
that particular splinter. That’s why he calls the proud man, in the parable he
really told, a hypocrite. But notice what he adds: “First take the plank out of
your own eye, and then you
will see well enough to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.”

Jesus
waves no banner for splinters. He wants them out. He commands a serious
examination of our consciences, a spiritual house cleaning; we must be merciful
with sinners, but intolerant of sin, beginning with our own. Are we angry with
our brother? Did we gaze with lust at that woman? Do we seek the highest place
at table? Do we pray conspicuously, to be noticed? Have we nursed vengeance
against those who have hurt us?

Hypocrisy,
pride, wrath, lust, covetousness, vanity, vindictiveness – these are all sins
or sinful dispositions, to be hated as we hate diseases of the body, because
they, like cancer, actually do harm to the real moral constitution with which
God has endowed us. Think of serious sins as foreign bodies lodged in the bone,
the blood, the brain, the heart. Jesus wants them out.

We can
draw a sharp distinction between the realism of the Church and what I’ll call
the “irrealism” of our time, a failure to understand the reality of sin. When I
say, “Detraction is a sin,” I mean more than that detraction hurts its victim’s
reputation, or that God has condemned it, or, to be a sophist, that “society”
frowns upon it. I mean that God condemns it in the same way that a doctor hates
cancer.

Plato understood the
point – how can Christians miss it? Detraction really does gnaw out the insides
of the detractor: the
sinner is the sin’s first and most terrible victim. We do not follow the moral
law as an arbitrary set of cultural restrictions. God has made us so as to
thrive by obeying the moral law and to sicken, decay, and die by ignoring it or
violating it.

That’s
regardless of opinion. It is the law written on our hearts; the law by which
our hearts work, and in this respect every single human person is like every
other. There are not two or three kinds of human hearts that pump blood to
every cell in the body; only one. There are not two or three separate
testimonies of the moral law written upon the heart; only one. The physical
heart is formed for blood, not water or glue. The moral heart is formed for
what really is good, not for hypocrisy, pride, wrath, lust, covetousness,
vanity, or vindictiveness.

...

So you say you believe that
fornication is wrong, because God has condemned it, but you do not really
believe that fornication is
wrong, and that therefore God’s condemnation is a guardrail, an
alarm. God will, you say to yourself, ignore the wrong, just as you yourself
ignore it, because it is more comfortable that way.

You are not a
judgmental hypocrite. You
are a non-judgmental hypocrite, congratulating yourself for a
broad-mindedness that in reality is just indifference or cowardice.

Or you
call it a beauty mark because that’s what everybody else calls it, and somehow
you hope that God too will play along. You say that since everybody’s a sinner,
it hardly matters which sin disfigures you or your brother. God will wipe them all out in the end.

But
that attitude cannot be reconciled with the words and the example of Jesus, nor
can it make any sense of the Cross. Why bother dying for people palsied with
sin, when it would be much easier to shrug at the palsy, wave a magic wand at
the resurrection of the dead, and, hey presto, everybody’s a saint?

There
is no love in that. If you see the cancer, you don’t say, “Well, everybody is
going to die of something eventually, so what’s the big deal?” If you see the
man in the ditch, beaten within an inch of his life, you don’t say, “Well, if
it weren’t this it would be something else,” and go on your way.

Fairytales don’t tell children that dragons exist; children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton

Find the courage to proclaim Christ, … and the unchanging truths which have their foundation in Him. These are the truths that set us free! They are the truths which alone can guarantee respect for the inalienable dignity and rights of each man, woman and child in our world – including the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn child in the mother’s womb. - Pope Benedict XVI

God does not choose the qualified. He qualifies the chosen - Madre Teresa de Calcutá

God gave us ten commandments, not ten thousand. Why? Why not a more complete list of specifics? Because he wanted freedom and variety. Why do you think he created so many persons? Why not just one? Because he loves different personalities. He wants his chorus to sing in harmony, but not in unison - Peter Kreeft

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints. - C.S Lewis

I would like to remind everyone, especially everyone engaged in boosting the world’s economic and social assets, that the primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity - Papa Bento XVI

If medieval people talked less about their own dignity, it is because they were more concerned about God´s dignity; if modern people talk more about it, it is because they are more concerned with themselves - Edward Feser

If you find a perfect parish, you go ahead and join her, it won't be perfect anymore - Matthew Kelly

In fact, a fine distinction could be a flat contradiction - G.K.Chesterton

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. G. K. Chesterton

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith - Alexis de Tocqueville

Mittite in Dexteram Navigii Rete, et Invenietis (João 21,6)

Multiculturalism is the doctrine which says that no culture can ever claim precedence over any other. So there can be no hierarchy of values, and no society can uphold its historic traditions and values against any challenge - Melaine Phillips

Napoleon himself announced to the Pope Pius VII that he was going to destroy the Church, to which Pius VII responded, “Oh my little man, you think you’re going to succeed in accomplishing what centuries of priests and bishops have tried and failed to do!”

Nowadays the devil has made such a mess of everything in the system of life on earth that the world will presently become uninhabitable for anybody but Saints. - Jacques Maritain

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience - Clive.S. Lewis

One was the view that stars are personal beings, governing our lives (astrology); the other the general theory that men have one mind between them (marxism); a view obviously opposed to immortality; that is, to individuality - G.K Chesteron

The difficulty of explaining “why I am Catholic” is that there are 10,000 reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. - GK Chesterton

The divide in Western civilization isn't between rich and poor, red vs. blue, or the uneducated vs. the educated. It's God. God is the dividing line. You either believe God loves each of us and grants us inalienable rights or you believe that everything is negotiable including life - Matthew Archbold

The obedient are not held captive by Holy Mother Church; it is the disobedient who are held captive by the world! - Diane M. Korzeniewski

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him - Chesterton

The two most destructive heresies — and the two most popular — are angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels - Peter Kreeft

The whole of history is a struggle between two loves: love of oneself to contempt of God; love of God to contempt of self, in martyrdom. We are in this struggle.

There are only three kinds of people: those who seek God and have found Him — these are wise and happy; those who seek God and have not yet found Him — these are wise and unhappy; and those who live without either seeking God or finding Him — and these are both unwise and unhappy. - Blaise Pascal

There are two sorts of people who might be tempted to think of death as a friend: those who think the nature of the human person has nothing to do with the body, and those who think it has everything to do with the body; in short, Platonists and materialists - Edward Feser

To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state - Edmund Burke on French Revolution

To be or not to be – that is the question”, then the massive medieval doctor (St. Thomas) does most certainly reply in voice of thunder, “To be – that is the answer - Chesterton